From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2010-01-30T12:56:57+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I use a variable in a regexp search string?



On Jan 29, 10:38 pm, Harry Kakueki <list.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I dont know how to use a variable in a regex searchstring.
> > ruby seems to only handle hardcoded serachstring in
> > regex's.   How do you do this.   My code is below.
>
> Does this help?
>
> str = "abcdef"
> searchstring = "cd"
> p str =~ /#{searchstring}/

You may need to escape:

  p str =~ /#{Regexp.escape(searchstring)}/